Bioluminescent Imaging and Histopathologic Characterization of WEEV Neuroinvasion in Outbred CD-1 Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Phillips, Aaron T ^a   Stauft, Charles B ^a   Aboellail, Tawfik A ^a   Toth, Ann M ^b   Jarvis, Donald L ^b   Powers, Ann M ^c   Olson, Ken E ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS E1 GLYCOPROTEIN ECTODOMAIN VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRAIN; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, WESTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ALPHAVIRUS; EQUIDAE; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; MUS; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84871763475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053462     Document Type: Article

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